Remarkably, 200 years later, during ANTIQUES ROADSHOW’s 2005 visit to Tampa, Florida, a guest named Margaret Smith brought in that very marriage license to be appraised.

An antique marriage bed that See remembers from the store inspired her latest novel, "Lady Tan's Circle of Women." (Michelle Terris / For The Times) For the record: ...

She realized that the document — with ornate illustrations of a wedding ceremony, cherubs, and wreath — was an old New Hampshire marriage certificate issued by a church to Frank Gookin and ...

L.A. author Lisa See explains how her historical novel about a doctor, 'Lady Tan's Circle of Women,' was inspired by an antique bed in her family store.